Creating Family Traditions: Building Lasting Love and Values

Families that play together stay together, and they build traditions that bind them in love for lifetimes and generations! This book is a treasure chest of activities and family projects that can make any occasion memorable. Whether you're looking for unique ways to celebrate Halloween, pleasant ways to get wide-awake children ready for bedtime, or different ways to let other members of your familly know you love them, it has fun, realistic ideas everyone will enjoy.

The book is conveniently organized in nineteen sections for easy reference. It shows how to provide children with good family routines and how to give each family member purpose, dignity and responsibility within the family structure. The emphasis of these innovative ideas is on creating traditions that build love and bring family members closer. There's also a wealth of ideas here on sharing family love with others in both secret and not-so-secret service projects that could become contagious traditions in your community.

Your family will love the rich, memorable traditions that will develop from activities like: the surprise supper, telling small children bedtime stories about themselves, taking Sunday one-on-one walks with each child, organizing "angel for a day" service projects, being secret helpers, making a genealogical family tree, writing letters to the new baby, making New Year's family predictions, having a Chinese New Year all-night family party, creating spatter Valentines, concocting July 4th firecracker cakes, having Thanksgiving turkey talks, playing Christmas pixies, and dozens more creative ideas and suggestions!